In just the last several months, de-extinction—bringing back extinct species by recreating them or organisms that resemble ...

Scientists have assembled the first nearly complete genome of the little bush moa, a flightless bird that went extinct soon after Polynesians settled New Zealand in the late 13th century.

The evolutionary history of New Zealand's many extinct flightless moa has been re-written in the first comprehensive study of more than 260 sub-fossil specimens to combine all known genetic ...

In the past, researchers have analyzed the DNA of nine species of bush moa. MORE: Sea otters, once hunted to near extinction, are preventing coastal erosion as their populations grow, study finds.

Members of one moa species, Pachyornis elephantopus, weighed up to 170 kg about 20,000 years ago, at the height of the last ice age, but only 90 kg or so 1,000 years ago.

New Zealand was once home to giant flightless birds called moa . They had grown accustomed to life without predators. So the arrival of humans in t ...

Back off, extinct moa. Leaf color and shape may defend a New Zealand tree species from a long-gone giant bird ...

The moa, a species of giant flightless birds, went extinct soon after humans arrived in New Zealand during the 13th century Wikimedia Commons Around 1800, an ominous refrain, Ka ngaro ā-moa te ...

Researchers have found New Zealand's endangered flightless birds are seeking refuge in the locations where six species of moa last lived before going extinct. An international team of researchers ...

Giant moa bird (Dinornis robustus, literally meaning 'robust strange bird') may not have actually had robust bones, according to new research conducted by The University of Manchester Giant moa ...

In just the last several months, de-extinction — bringing back extinct species by recreating them or organisms that resemble ...

Reconstructing the demise of New Zealand’s extinct moa can help conserve the country’s remaining flightless birds, which are retreating to the same final places - cold, isolated mountaintops.